Articles: The Ethnic Entry into Chicago Politics: The United Societies for Local Self-Government and the Reform Charter of 1907; Queries Regarding the Western Rivers: An Unpublished Letter from Thomas Jefferson to the Geographer of the United...

Articles: Thomas Bentley and the American Revolution in Illinois; The Chicago Catholic Charities, the Great Depression, and Public Monies; "My poor little Ninth": The Ninth Illinois at Shiloh; The Springfield Lyceums and Lincoln's 1838 Speech;...

Articles: Adlai Stevenson, Television, and the Presidential Campaign of 1956; Ten Million Acres for the Insane: The Forgotten Collaboration of Dorothea L. Dix and William H. Bissell; Abraham Lincoln and Joshua Speed, Attorney and Client;...

Papers, Addresses, Reports: Conservation Research Program of the Illinois Natural History Survey (Presidential Address); The Betatron; Excerpts from Lecture, "A Naturalist in the South Seas"; Extract from the Report of the Section Chairman...